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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

«My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.»
«Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them»
«To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man-and also a nation.»
«The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.»
«The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.»
«That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.»
«Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.»
«We have confused the free with the free and easy.»
«Laws are never as effective as habits.»
«A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.»

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